Trump remains defiant on 'emergency' at border as lawsuits pile up: 'Can't take you anymore, sorry'
President Donald Trump doubled down on his claims that there is an immigration “emergency” at the U.S.-Mexico border on Friday, during a visit to the border in Calexico, California.
Trump also decried what he called “horrible loopholes” in the immigration system, naming the visa lottery, so-called “chain migration” , and declared the nation’s asylum laws to be “totally broken.”Earlier on Friday, California governor Gavin Newsom announced that a coalition of 20 states was suing to challenge Trump’s national emergency declaration to fund a wall on the southern border.
He was apparently making reference to February figures from Customs and Border Patrol showing the number of migrant families apprehended at the border had risen to a high point for the last decade. Border experts told USA Today those figures reflect not only the drugs caught but also how cartels smuggle illegal substances into the country generally.
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